Agriculture Future of America is helping to equip college-age students to become allies for diversity in agriculture.
The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture embraced new initiatives to address racial justice, hunger, and food worker protections.
2020 saw a national reckoning on American race relations, and the history of Black farmers became a key piece of the puzzle.
Justin Smith Morrill, a young senator from Vermont, had a vision for all Americans to have access to higher education — which, in the early 1800s, had been reserved for elite, wealthy white males. Morrill developed a proposal in 1857 to grant land to each state for the establishment of public universities. Morrill was determined […]